Re: What are we going to do about spam?

Adam Back (aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk)
Thu, 17 Sep 1998 20:09:53 +0100

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> On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Walter Burton wrote:
>
> > I understand the argument against this, but until we have some legal
> > recourse to redress this b.s., that's the only solution that's gonna
> > have a serious impact. Filtering would be beneficial, but most of the
> > ones I see in the course of a day seem pretty random.
>
> I'd rather the law stays out of this.

Amen to that!

> I would prefer the "list members only" posting, and have several
> members designated to forward anonymous posts. I'll volunteer.
> That will kill the spam and give the group full access to a wide
> range of messages.

I'm not sure that this works that well because there are many people
who are not "subscribed" to CodherPlunks who read it. For quite some
time I used to read lists via nntp server at hks.net. Web archives
are popular method of reading also for people with flat rate telecoms.

Yes, you could have a separate "allowed to post" list which one can
subscribe to separately, but really that is just extra hassle.

Adam

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